Japan nuclear disaster sparks heated EU debate
Japan's nuclear reactor emergency triggered a wave of reactions in the European Union, with environment ministers urging stress tests on operating nuclear plants and MEPs calling for nuclear energy to be phased out. http://bit.ly/g2gpjM
EU must learn from China's clean energy drive, say experts
The EU is in danger of being left behind as China launches its latest five-year energy plan, which will shift production towards clean energies such as wind power, experts warned. http://bit.ly/ejgWRC Prague and Bratislava richer than most old EU states The Prague region in the Czech Republic and the Bratislava region in Slovakia are among the richest in the EU. But by and large, the bloc still suffers from a massive east-west income gap. http://euobserver.com/9/31873/?rk=1
Climate change and the EU:
King of the road (map) http://blogs.euobserver.com/jacobs/?p=103
Wind sector keeps up pressure on EU over targets
The president of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), Arthuros Zervos, has called for the EU to adopt a binding renewable energy target of 30% for 2030. http://bit.ly/e65vqD
Brussels drops plan to green-up its buildings
The European Commission appears to have dropped earlier plans to show EU member states the way on achieving greater energy efficiency by removing a pledge to renovate the institution's many buildings, scattered between Brussels, Luxembourg and elsewhere. http://euobserver.com/9/31939/?rk=1
Survey suggests Web to overtake printed press as source of EU information
A growing number of EU citizens say they use the Internet to get information about the European Union, while daily newspapers are significantly losing ground and television remains the primary source of EU news, a Union-wide poll reveals. http://bit.ly/dU4Rfe
OpenAIRE opens access to EU scientific results
EU researchers, businesses and citizens can have free and open access to EU-funded research papers thanks to OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe), which the European Commission launched December 2010, at the University of Ghent in Belgium. Projects funded under FP7 are requested to deposit peer-reviewed papers in online repositories and to provide open access within 6 or 12 months after publication depending on the thematic area. http://www.openaire.eu
Research shows Europeans see themselves tolerant, but oppose immigration
Europeans like to think of themselves as being liberal and tolerant, but at the same time oppose immigration, particularly from countries outside the EU, a poll carried out in Britain, France, Germany, Poland and Spain shows. http://euobserver.com/9/31980/?rk=1
Mountain.TRIP European website launched
The goal of Mountain.TRIP is to provide stakeholders, end-users and practitioners with readily accessible and understandable forms of research-based information relevant to sustainable development in mountain regions. It converts research findings from European projects into useful information and developing relationships between users and researchers. http://www.mountaintrip.eu
Kosovo & Serbia to hold first direct talks since Kosovo's independence in Feb. 2008:
http://wapo.st/fsZoug
The Power of Research: a new online game launched by the EU: http://www.powerofresearch.eu
Europe financing green initiatives - UPI.com http://t.co/WF2f9IX
France pushes for cuts in EU regional funding
In a report sent to the European Commission, the French government makes a "priority" of "decreasing the portion of the budget dedicated to cohesion policy," http://bit.ly/e663lu
EU 2020 regional strategy will fail without local authorities http://bit.ly/e2EmQ5
Research predicting tsunamis in Europe http://ec.europa.eu/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=32_main
EU, UN join forces to walk the road to Rio+20
The European Commission and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have signed a new partnership to further global action on sustainable development and help developing countries green their economies at next year's Rio+20 summit. http://bit.ly/fKc2UC |
